Felix wrote: Paarfi. By a factor of a multiplier of a power. Paarfi, for all > his 'claims', should be read as entertainment, not as 'history'; we > all know how many differences there are between what Paarfi 'states' > and what Vlad relates to the little silver box as being told to him > by various personages. The one that pops immediately to mind is > the differences between where Paarfi says Morrolan is when Zerika > descends Deathgate Falls, and where Vlad says Morrolan says he was. And in this case, we know that Vlad's account cannot possibly be taken at face value, because Morrolan discusses his firsthand knowledge of the impossibility of using sorcery there; and having been born during the Interregnum, he cannot have had any such knowledge at the time. (Unless you're willing to countenance the possibility that he somehow learned Elder Sorcery out East, or came West early enough to learn it from Sethra before heading up to the Falls.) Max Wilson -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.